Read Your Bible every Day

How often do you read your Bible?

Centre for Bible Engagement did a survey of 40,000 people in USA, age 8 to 80 yrs.

If someone reads the Bible:

1x/wk: no significant health benefits observed

2x/wk: no sig. effect

3x/wk: tiny effect

4x/wk or more, you likely get these, or similar, benefits:

Loneliness down 30%
Anger down 32%
Bitterness down 40%
Alcoholism, drug use down 57%
Spiritually stagnant feeling down 60%
Pornography use down 61%
Sharing your faith up 200%
Decipling others up 230%

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https://bttbfiles.com/web/docs/cbe/Scientific_Evidence_for_the_Power_of_4.pdf

### Bible Readings in a Lifetime

OT: 929 Chapters
NT: 260
Total: 1,189 Chapters in Bible

It takes approximately 72 hours to read the Bible out loud while standing.  That is an average of 16.51 Chapters per hour.

1189/365= 3.26 chapters per day.  

Rounding off, reading 4 Chapters per day will ensure 1 full reading of the Bible every year.

How long does it take to read 3.26 Chapters per day?  This should take the average reader:   (16.51 Chapters/hr) × (3.26 Chapters/day) × (60 minutes/hr)= 11.85 minutes/ day.

Each breath we take, each beat of our heart is a gift from God.  

If we get 8 hrs of sleep each night, we're awake for 16 hrs per day.  If we spend 11.85 min./day reading God's Word, that is only 1.2% of our waking hours, or just 0.82% of a 24 hr. day.  

Is this too high a price to pay in honouring your Creator?

Some Pastors suggest that a pious Christian should have read the Bible once for every year of their life. Since all humans delayed their start of reading, all humans have some catch-up to get back on track.

This formula will calculate the required effort to catch up:

N= ((L-R)×1188)/((L-A)×365)

N= # Bible Chapters to read every day
L= life expectancy, years
R= readings of Bible cover-cover already achieved
A= current age, years

Example: I have a life expectancy of 82 years. I am currently 69 yrs old. So far, I have read the Bible cover-to-cover twice.

# Chapter per day= ((82-2)×1189)/((82-69)×365)= 20.046 Chapters

That will take me 72.85 minutes per day to read 20 Chapters.

Therefore by reading 20 Bible Chapters every day, by the time I reach my 82nd birthday, I will have read the Bible 82 times from cover-to-cover.  

Hopefully, this will help me better understand God, and His Word.  It will help ensure I stay grounded in God, rather than sloshing around in the winds and waves of this fallen, evil world.  Coupled with praying continuously, and joyful obedience to God's commandments, this will help ensure I have an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

Hopefully, we all avoid hearing

  "I know you not, you worker of iniquity, into the Outer Darkness you go".